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Six plants grown as above but all of one color : 



No. G79. Red, three prizes $5, $4, f3 



No. 680. White, three prizes . . ., . . . $5, $i, $3 



No. 681. Pink, three prizes $5, $4, $3 



No. 682. Yellow, three prizes ..... 



No. 683. Any other color, three prizes 



No. 684. Six plants grown to bush form from single stems, 



in not over eight-inch pots, without stakes, three 



prizes $8, $6, $4 



No. 685. Group of Chrysanthemums, arranged for effect, 

 limited to one hundred square feet, and edged 

 with ferns or low growing decorative plants, five 

 prizes .$40, $35, $30, $25, $20 



FLOV/ERS. 



The classification of the Chrysanthemum Society of America will be the 

 >t;indard by which Cut Blooms will be judged as far as it is possible to do 

 so, and all exhibitors are requested to follow these types as closely as 

 possible. 



The characteristics of the Incurved, Japanese Incurved, Japanese, and 

 Reflexed classes, as classified by the Chrysanthemum Society of America, are 

 as follows : — 



Incurved. — The varieties belonging to this section are distinguished by the 

 globular form and regular outline of the flowers. The incurved flower should 

 be as nearly a globe as possible; the florets smooth, regularly arranged, and 

 rounded at the tip. Any tendency of the lower florets to hang loosely or 

 depart from the imbricated form would be cause for exclusion from this class. 



Japanese Incurved. — Flowers of this class should retain the general out- 

 line of the "Incurved" class, but should be more loosely built, the florets 

 partaking of the freedom of arrangement characteristic of the Japanese. 



Japanese. — No definition can be given to include all the variations found 

 in this class. They are characterized by the absence of regularity both in 

 form of flower and floret, the latter being either short or long, narrow or 

 broad, sometimes being reduced to mere threads, smooth and straight or 

 variously folded or twisted and sometimes quilled for their entire length or 

 only a part thereof. 



Reflexed. — Flowers of this class should be nearly globular or hemisphe- 

 roidal in outline, this form being caused by the florets reflexing or falling 

 downward and away from the centre, thereby showing their face or upper 

 surface ; their length in no way affecting the characteristics of this class, the 

 most perfect specimens of which are full to the centre with florets of sufficient 

 length to overlap, forming a smooth and regular surface. 



The types of the several classes are as follows, viz. : 

 Incurved — Mabel Ward. 



Japanese — "William H. Lincoln, Mrs. Fottler, Lilian B. Bird, etc., etc. 

 Japanese Incurved — Mrs. Charles Wheeler, T. C. Price, Kioto. 

 Reflexed — CuUingfordii, President Hyde, Viviand Morel. 

 Anemone — Lady Margaret, Timbale d'Argent. 



